The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
winterizing, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
Weather Alert, Expect Hard Freeze
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Weather Alert, Expect Hard Freeze
Miracle Man
October 31, 2023
The weather alert started with a northwest breeze,
and said before morning we’d see a hard freeze.
But this won’t be ...
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Categories:
winterizing, jesus, weather,
Form: Couplet
Summer's Chill Anticipations
...When I am gone,
in winter's timeless hibernation,
what will you be doing
with this sanctifying place
in time's healing space
refueling mortal rememory?
When you peer here
in summer's eternal...
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Categories:
winterizing, culture, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Turning Colder
...Familiar storm - stampeding, impeding,
drawing in colder days, lighting up
monotone skies, winterizing holiday rise.
Thoughts of yesteryear - their existence
unclear, relegating nonsensical not...
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Categories:
winterizing, holiday, meaningful, weather, winter,
Form: Verse
Xenophobic Youth
...Attractive boys came devouring every frozen gulp.
Heavenly ices jubilant kaleidoscopic light.
Marvelous opulence, picturesque reoccurring –
Sustenance tasted universally.
Vicariously winterizing ...
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Categories:
winterizing, adventure, environment, life, snow,
Form: ABC
How Was Your Summer
...How was your summer, said the cashier
At the checkout counter.
Then later that day the radio guys
Are talking that way…talk about
Winterizing the yard & the car,
Pick up the yard, rake some le...
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Categories:
winterizing, august, autumn, september, summer,
Form: Free verse